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[William]

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Pantone Colour of the Year for 2013 and fonts

Pantone Colour of the Year for 2013 and fonts

Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year for 2013. It is Emerald. http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?pg=21056&ca=10 So, I decided to try setting the word Emerald using my Sonnet Calligraphic font, also thinking as to whether I could design some more glyphs for the font in order to display the word Emerald more stylishly. The word Emerald is interesting because it seems to me that the only opportubities for calligraphy are the capital E and the letters lowerce l and d, yet …

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2013 is Emerald.

@William

I needed to find the CMYK values for Emerald.

I found them on the last page of the Pantone fashion color report spring 2013.

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Emerald PANTONE 17–5641 CMYK 86.8.57.0

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So I used C=86, M=8, Y=57, K=0.

In order to use the colour Emerald in a colour font I needed RGB values.

So I used Serif PagePlus X5 to construct a custom colour of C=86, M=8, Y=57, K=0 and then I edited that colour and asked for the RGB equivalent, which produced R=18, G=165, B=137.

I then started a new project in FontCreator, including outlines.

I added a colour to the end of the colour palette with R=18, G=165, B=137, A=255.

I then colourized some of the sample glyphs, one by one.

Here is a graphic.

Clicking on the image should display it in full.

William Overington

19 August 2013